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Despite our proactive outreach to top UC administrators alerting them to the problems with the UCPath payroll system, we have heard from hundreds of workers who were not paid or were paid the wrong amount.

Are you looking forward to your November 1 paycheck? Me too, but right now I’m worried I’m not going to get paid. That’s because this will be the first check for TAs at UCLA and UCSB under the University’s new UCPath payroll system. UCPath has cost UC nearly $1 billion*,

In January, our union’s leadership voted to endorse a national prison labor strike. Now, the Oakland Local of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) has requested that we stand in solidarity with another Prison Strike set to take place from August 21 through September 9.

By a margin of 58.6% to 41.4% (2,564 yes votes to 1,810 no votes), members have voted to ratify the contract. This was one of the largest turnouts for a contract ratification vote in our Union’s history. You can find the full text of the final ratified proposals here and the breakdown of votes by campus below:

As we hope you are aware, we currently have a vote underway on whether or not to ratify a Tentative Agreement that our bargaining team has reached with UCOP for our next contract. You can see the details of the agreement here.

A majority of the Bargaining Team voted to reach Tentative Agreement on this offer and to send it to membership for a vote.